when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say. — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion.… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people? — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course. — Bill Peterson Copy Share Image
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech and civil liberties have been targeted and repressed in Hong Kong. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
